Scratch Build – Complete GwassGween -FINISHED-Nov13 2013-pics start on page 67

It might not look like a good picture because of the camera, but I think it looks great. Polish it anymore and you'll make a hole

 

Cheaps, this looks absolutely stunning. What a great res.

 

Two replies before I could un-screw up my post!
Thanks guys.

 

holy acrylic this is awesome cheaps!!

 

damn, that's a sick looking res, great job

 

Just great work happening here Cheaps.

 

Wow this is looking spectacular!

 

Thanks.

 

Love that res!

However, I wonder if you will finish this project before a couple of your sponsors go out of business?

Oh, and also: YOUR PICTURES ARE TOO SMALL! There, I said it.

 

Thanks. I AM done, I had to let the NUC blow over before I could post.
Bill called earlier about the same thing. He thought that last post was the finale. -That amuses the hell out of me still.

 

You & your crazy awesome reservoirs, looks amazing.

The Helterskelteroir.

Helter skelter always meant super fun happy slide to me, not Charles Manson, bit of a difference.

 

Breathtaking Cheaps, There are layered builds then there's this ... me I'm very happy it's taken a while to get this far as I'd have missed this build.

 

I wonder if you got this from your drill presses super happy fun spin...

Looking great, cheaps! Good to see you're finally done stroking your rod. Never does get old, does it?

 

Thanks.
@Waynio -Helterresiskeltivoir is slightly less painful to read.
@Asouter -You'd have to away a loooong time.
@Silicon -You could have moved on and complimented my big tube...
-anyway


-There was a marathon modding session to move Gigi's guts in from the temp case. My first move was to wet my bed...with coolant. I had to tear down the motherboard assembly and get it cleaned up.
I also had to switch some long screws off the SB block.

-Eww plasticizer spew! I swapped the clear lines out for black while I was at it.

-And again, why waste your time trying to clean with ketchup when you can zap the ick in seconds with toilet cleaner. I put a drop on a toothbrush, and the pins went from black to this in 3 seconds. You can still see dark where I didn't touch with cleaner.

-Putting the entire rig together for the first time had it's problems. I somehow forgot to take the PSU into account when I cut this fan wire hole.

-So the case has to put on a girly skirt so I can drill a hole and not get crud in the motherboard.

-Getting there.

-I started feeding wires into the duct and under the motherboard. I'm not sure if there is any room for air.

-There's barely any room for anything. I had to cut the unwieldly heatshrink off the ATX plug to get it under the cover.

-At this point I noticed another thing I forgot: the wire hole for the back fan! Heck! I had it taped off and marked at one point too.
So I had to pull the PSU and SR1 radiator again... More dressup...

-I snapped a few WIP pics and slept on it.

-So there's that clunky power cable.

-To my shock the adjusted GPU mount plate still had the right marks on it.

-There was an even greater shock that it fit in the case too.

-Note to self: Make more of these access panels next time, and raise the board up more too. The SATA cables had a knack for turning so they blocked other cables. They were all like, "You. shall. not. pass!" and stuff.

-I ended up with way too much USB cord too. I had to stuff it behind the PSU.

-Look at that long blue buggerer. I thought I would be happy with the extra, but two extension cords was too much.

-Yipes! I spy the cathode inverter in the blind spot of the duct. I supplemented my attempted SATA cable dye job with permanent marker. -classy.

-One of those last-second fittings. Here I'm marking where the mobo cover needs to be trimmed. I couldn't do this before because I didn't have the metal plate finished.

-******! Who designed this thing? Honda? To get one of the cover screws on, I have to pull the pump barbs and use a flex extension on the screwdriver. You will notice the drive head and screw are taped together. That's the downside of stainless screws: You can't rely on a magnetic screwdriver to hold on to it.

-Yay! Everything is together!

-I mean, there's tubes and everything! It's like it could be finished or... wait.
I filled the loop and tried to prime the pump at this point. I got nothing but that nasty stink of burning electronics. I thought about it for a few seconds and guessed I had slapped the wires back in the molex connector backwards. I had to take the molex plug off to route the wires, after all.

Thanks again:

 

The one cardinal rule: "It's not modded if there isn't smoke"-still holds true for the acrylic god.

Good to see wire routing done by cheaps that doesn't look like an apple maps new york freeway

 

It does, you just can't see it. That's why I used the black plastic.

 

Be careful when you open your case...You'll never know all mirrors tricks!

AAAAHH! (bruce screaming)

sorry had a rough monday and the first thing that popped in my mind watching your delicious mod was bruce lee springing out of it

 

Some tight wiring spaces there but it does look great.

 

Thanks.
@Amagriva -There's a lot of prism effect too that I can't seem to catch on camera.
@Craig- The original plan was to have the wiring modular and built in. I don't want to know how long something like that would have taken.

 

I have time to wait.